(4.5.2) Reading is a means, not a purpose

Reading is a means. It is not always a purpose. If it is a means, to think the achievement condition of the means is nonsense.

When you think “I have to read this book”, you consider the means as the purpose unconsciously. Is your original purpose the reading? What would you like to have happened by reading the book? Let’s clarify the real purpose.

To help you clarify the purpose, I show you several types of purpose.

• (4.5.2.1) Make a map
• (4.5.2.2) Make connections
• (4.5.2.3) Get the tools of thinking

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